In 1920s India, Michael Flaherty arrives in a new country and has to deal with a different culture, expectations and climate than back home in his native Ireland. However, Michael breaks all the rules when he falls in love with Anglo-Indian Rose, who realistically he would never be able to marry and bring home. When the Kildare Rangers hear about the murder of Irish people by the hands of the Black & Tans in Ireland during the War of Independence, there's a mutiny that spells disaster for Michael and Rose.

I really loved this book and the perfect combination of Irish culture and history, blended so perfectly with Indian. The Kildare Rangers mutiny is something I had never heard about until I found out about this book so it was of great interest and sadness that I read about it in this novel, and learned what happened to the poor soldiers who tried to take a stand for the people back home - realistically, why should they have ever fought in the name of a Crown killing their own people?

Cauvery is such a talented writing in the way she was able to weave this story from the 1920s and the War of Independence right up to the 1980s, and being able to explain all the different type of relationships between Irish people then, especially between Catholics and Protestant. And how Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Indian may have been treated differently in the 20s but over the years, they became to mean the same thing - someone never truly fitting in where they were born or where they were suppose to be.

This story flowed really well, and I felt very connected to all the characters from Michael, to Rose, to Mohan, Richard and May. Every piece of detail and conversation felt very real and you could tell Cauvery truly knows and understands how Irish people think, feel and speak as everything was so spot on.

I think the story did start to meander a little bit near the end, and I felt like there was going to be something more meaningful between May and Richard but that never really came to anything in the end.

I did love the story overall and I will definitely be picking up more books from Cauvery as she can write a good story!